"Triclinium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... go to the triclinium, where a meal is now ready, and when we have refreshed ourselves, let us give command ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... catacombs. They assembled in the solitude of forests to pray and to exhort one another. When the Jews opposed themselves to the new creed, congregations met in the houses of the more wealthy. The apartment usually employed for divine purposes is supposed to have been the triclinium, or large dining-room of the richer classes amongst the Greeks and Romans. The want of churches was first experienced when frequent conversions swelled congregations beyond the limits of a large family; and this, as we have hinted, occurred in the course of the third century. The existence ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... Bedstead with a Table Greek Furniture Interior of an Ancient Roman House Roman State Chair Bronze Lamp and Stand Roman Scamnum or Bench Bisellium, or Seat for Two Persons Roman Couch, Generally of Bronze A Roman Study Roman Triclinium ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
... going slowly, was thinking of these things, Vanity, the only real goddess who, in Rome, managed the great theatre of fashion, had her stage set for a love scene. It was to occur in the triclinium, or great banquet-hall, of a palace—that of the Lady Lucia. There were portrait-masks and mural paintings on either wall; ancestral statues of white marble stood in a row against the red wall; there were seats and divans of ebony enriched by cunning hands; lamp-holders of wrought metal ...
— Vergilius - A Tale of the Coming of Christ • Irving Bacheller |
